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Audacia Ray

Ninuk Widyantoro was one of eleven people who founded the YKP Women’s Health Foundation in Indonesia in 2001. The founders established the [...]

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Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced plans to proceed toward a ban of abortion services in the country. In response, [...]

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On April 11th, our colleagues in Brazil celebrated an important victory in the long battle toward safe legal abortion in the country. [...]

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Centro Feminista de Estudos e Asssessoria (CFEMEA), or the Feminist Center for Studies and Advisory Services is a nongovernmental, non-profit organization in [...]

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Unleashing the Power of Women in a World of 7 Billion

by Audacia Ray on September 14, 2011

in 7 Billion

Yesterday in Washington, DC we co-sponsored an event with UNFPA, National Geographic, government agencies and non-governmental organizations  focusing on women and girls [...]

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Andrea Lynch, a former IWHC staffer, has authored a report published by the Population Council that looks at child marriage and features [...]

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HIV, Circumcision, and Consent

by Audacia Ray on August 26, 2011

in Africa,HIV/AIDS and Other STIs

During the last several years, adult male circumcision has become a highly promoted form of risk reduction when it comes to HIV. [...]

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American Teens Fight Child Marriage

by Audacia Ray on August 25, 2011

in Child Marriage

Global Health News has a new short video about American teenage girls who, after learning about the plight of their counterparts in [...]

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Our partner CREA, which is based in India and also runs the annual in-person Sexuality and Rights Institute, is getting ready to [...]

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Counting to 7 Billion

by Audacia Ray on August 19, 2011

in 7 Billion

The United Nations has chosen October 31, 2011 as the approximate date that the world’s seven billionth person will be born. Really, [...]

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